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#Redirect [[4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix]]
== Requirements ==
 
 
 
You will need the following materials to put together a 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix installation:
 
 
 
*A working perl interpeter to make the tape images.<br>
 
*A copy of gzip.<br>
 
*A method of extracting the boot file from either the binaries (tar/gzip) or uudecode to extract it from [[boot42|here]].<br>
 
*A compiled binary of vax780 from [[SIMH]], along with the vmb.exe again from [[SIMH]].
 
*The [[Mkdisttap.pl]] program, you can take the settings from [[Mkdisttap.pl#Quasijarus_0c|Quasijarus]] as the names & block sizes match up.
 
 
 
 
 
You will need the following files from any 4 BSD archive from the 4.3BSD directory.  I have used the files from [http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/ mirror.cc.vt.edu].  You can use whatever method you like to download them, wget, a web browser etc..<br><br>
 
 
 
[http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/stand.gz stand.gz]<br>
 
[http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/miniroot.gz miniroot.gz]<br>
 
[http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/rootdump.gz rootdump.gz]<br>
 
[http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/usr.tar.gz usr.tar.gz]<br>
 
[http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/srcsys.tar.gz srcsys.tar.gz]<br>
 
[http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/Ancient_Unix/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/src.tar.gz src.tar.gz]<br>
 
 
 
== Preparing for installation ==
 
 
 
 
 
With the files downloaded you will need to uncompress them all and then create the tape file.
 
 
 
The following command will decompress the tape files.
 
<pre>
 
gzip -d *.gz
 
</pre>
 
 
 
The tape needs to be created with the [[mkdisttap.pl]] program.  Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called 43.tap .
 
 
 
<pre>
 
% ./mkdisttap.pl > 43.tap
 
% ls -l 43.tap
 
-rw-r--r--  1 Neozeed  None_ploc  XXXXXXXXx Feb  6 15:18 43.tap
 
</pre>
 
 
 
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Life interrupts again... I'll have to finish later.. but it's just like a 4.3 BSD install.
 

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